| Description |
1 online resource (xxiii, 443 pages) : illustrations. |
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text file |
| Series |
Dictionary of literary biography ; volume 385
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Dictionary of literary biography complete online
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Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 385.
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Dictionary of literary biography complete online.
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| Note |
"ISSN: 1096-8547". |
| Summary |
This volume describes the novel and its creation, and the cultural evolution of the Frankenstein story. |
| Note |
"A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Inspirations and sources : Mythic and religious texts ; Enlightenment thought and romanticism ; The works of Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin ; The rise of new science ; Travels and tragedy ; The poetry of Frankenstein ; The stories of Fantasmagoriana -- Bringing Frankenstein to life: composition, publication, and reception : The stories of a beginning ; Writing and publishing the novel ; The responses to Frankenstein ; The second edition ; The third edition -- "In the neighbourhood of man": the fate of Frankenstein in the culture : The creature's stage debut ; The response to Presumption ; Other stage adaptations of the 1820s ; The legacy of a "peculiar place" ; "The ancestor of a numerous family" ; Frankenstein goes to the movies: the early twentieth century ; The continuing presence of Frankenstein -- Selected criticism. |
| Subject |
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851. Frankenstein.
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Science fiction, English -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Science fiction, English. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Added Author |
Harris-Fain, Darren, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Gale, a Cengage Company, [2020] 9780787696603 (DLC) 2019014312 |
| ISBN |
9781414462585 (electronic book) |
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9780787696603 (hardcover) |
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